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Red Faction Guerilla was no Citizen Kane. It was a fairly straightforward game that allowed players to embark upon mental destruction sprees leveling everything in sight. Was it a deep meaningful experience? Umm no. Did it provide hours of mindless...

The Red Faction series has had a tumultuous history, from the intriguing linear adventure of the 2001 original to the joys of the open-world sandbox rendition of Mars found in 2008's excellent Guerrilla. The one common thread tying the entire series...

Despite its forgettable story and pacing issues with the campaign, Red Faction: Armageddon is good fun for letting out your inner destructive child. They ability to tear apart and repair the environments at will is a hook that keeps working, and when...

As a reviewer, one comes across games that are uniformly good or uniformly bad. Sometimes, we're stuck with a game that plays badly right up until a crucial moment which seems to throw a switch, making for a transcendent gaming experience....

Despite a few flaws, 2009's Red Faction: Guerrilla did several things extremely well. Namely, it told an amazing story about a group of rebels who picked away at a tyrannical government until it fell, and it provided a huge, open world in which you...

Red Faction: Armageddon represents the fourth game in the Red Faction series, and it's interesting to see how far things have come. From first person, to third person. From destruction/manipulation of the environment to destruction/manipulation of...

When I first started playing Red Faction: Armageddon I was a little confused. Wait I am supposed to take a hammer and smash a wall? Ok…BOOM goes the wall. Pretty darn cool. So for a while I went around all smashy smashy. Well what do you know,...